The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-21

a, Infamous system of Slavery Existing In
tho Large Cities of the United States-
How Ignorant Italians Are Lured to
This Country by False Promises.
The most active person in this country
4.-.. ast the padroni is an Italian, genIle-
m OF character and ability, Capt. Celso
C II Moreno, who has already been IN
So mental In doing much good In tins Ill
ION. He it was who called the atten-
tfs5a of the lamented Charles Sumner TO
the infamous traffic of kidnapping Italian
CHI. dren and bringing them to this coun-
try to serve as street musicians ana tne
like In the course of a conversation with
Can't. Moreno the other day the question
WAS asked:
Does the padrone system still ex1stY
81 es, TO a greater extent than ever be-
fore. Thousands of Italians are entlced
st..v from Italy under the false represen-
-6us of grants of fertile lands and
nIEIer climate than they enjoy IN their
r,.r We land with chances of finding any
lumber of gold mines in the lands which
s-a to be allotted to them, and the pros
-,.rt is held out to them Of becoming rlch
ia very short time. If they have not the
rcedy money to pay their passage TO
s,,erica it is paid for them by the land
,.,.npany, which is described as one OF the
rr,atest charitable and benevolent lnstl-
tutions in the world. Speedily such
Dreams vanish on their arrival here. They
are put to organ-grindlng, some WIN
dalcing girl or monkey, others as street
- gepers others still to pick rags, while
-tE1se who are too old and 1nfirm TO CO
aayti,;ng else are put to begging, being
furnished with false certificates or losses
l,y fire or government persecution in their
n.1ive land, which had forced them TO
crne to this country in order that they
my not utterly perish. They are even
c.npelIed to play the part Of blind men.
SLAVES TO THE PADRONEs.
What they get in the way of money is
at once taken possession or by the
o. drones as soon as the slaves come nome
IL night. They are educated to look
mon the Americans as their enemies,
far being instilled into their minds tina:
fa-eigners are looked upon with suspicion
and the like, and therefore being In dan
per of going to Jail upon the slightest pre-
T. II. Many of those who are thus brought
TO this country are of the criminal ano
lower classes of Italian society, who come
here perchance to escape punishment il
TtsIy- never dreaming that they are run
ming away from imprisonment, perhaps
at home to become slaves to the padronl
WHY, right here in this city, within sight
o. the Goddess of Liberty on yonder dome
o. the capitol, there are some SUI OF these
.Iians who have come to this country tx
n rtake of the bounty which the grea
/ Id company had in store for them
p ley are at work upon the new reservoir
Il have said that many of them were O
criminal classes. One of the reservoir
Iony is now in the District jail unde
atence of death for numbering one o
rs companions. His father in Italy is
noted brigand, who has just been arrested
over there and put in prison. You hav
them in your city of Cleveland, in Cincin
natl, and other places in Ohio. They ar
nut to all kinds of work You think then
free. but they are held in bondage tina
is worse than that which held the slave
in the south, for in the case OF the latte
YOU knew they were slaves, but in the cas-
If these Italians their real condition
withheld from the world. There are ~
600 of this kind in the city of New Yor
.nd Is. 600 in Chicago" Oh, the though
ais me with indignation. 1t is unjust
nv country People see these miserab
neople and they think the whole ltaha
nation lust like them Some months az
I adore ssed letter to the king of Italy
this suijeet-W ashington Coz. Clevelaf
Leader.